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Buxton in NYC

Buxton — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:24:33 +0000

Title: Buxton in NYC
Location: Solas, 232 E. 9th Street
Description: Alumni, Parents, Faculty, Trustees and Friends are invited to join us for our 10th annual gathering in NYC.
Start Time: 07:00
Date: 2010-02-05
End Time: 09:00

CERAMICS – ADVANCED

Buxton — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:09:17 +0000

(full year) offered ’08-‘09
This class is geared to students who feel comfortable centering and throwing four to five pounds of clay on the potter’s wheel and trimming and glazing their work. It is a structured class where the students, as a group, progress each week with a new in-class assignment. The assignments are meant to challenge each student’s abilities and strengthen their throwing technique. Each week the class stays focused on the idea of creating many pieces rather than trying to make one perfect piece, this way learning from mistakes made. In addition to working in the studio, students are expected to cover, trim and glaze their work outside of class. Students find a new love for the material and a close bond with each other as they advance through this exciting and challenging experience.

BEHAVIORAL and CHEMICAL ADDICTION STUDIES

Buxton — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:06:49 +0000

(one semester) offered ’08-‘09
Behavioral and Chemical Addiction Studies (BCAS) will introduce and explore the broad topic of addiction and compulsion in Homo sapiens. Through readings and presentations, students will share historical and scientific knowledge pertaining to: neurological roots of behavior, chemistry of the brain, addiction history, proximate and ultimate causes of addiction, toxicology, drug use and abuse, and addiction treatment methods. The course will entail a significant presentation component, as well as several mandatory out-of-class field trips and two research papers. Class attendance and participation will comprise a major part of the final grade in BCAS. The course is limited to 12 students, with one full year of biology prerequisite.

TOPICS IN RELIGION and POLITICS

Buxton — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:01:25 +0000

(one semester) offered ’08-‘09
This junior/senior elective will address a handful of themes that are related to the intersection of religion and politics. It will primarily focus on current politics, but will necessarily address some history. Possible themes: religion and government systems (for example, American and/or Indian democracy, Islamic statehood), religion’s role in terrorism (not just Islamic), religion and persecution/ genocide/war (Tibet, Israel/ Palestine, examples from Africa), liberation theology (Caribbean, Latin America, South Africa), and the globalization and commodification of religion.

CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL and POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

Buxton — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:55:48 +0000

(one semester) offered ’08-‘09
This freshman/ sophomore social science elective will necessarily be global in scope and will address the following movements: anti-globalization, environmentalism, anti-racism/immigrant rights, prisoners’ rights (three thousand years plus life), third-wave feminism and LGBTQ rights. We will read texts originating with each of these movements and texts that discuss these movements within the context of history and the social issues from which they have arisen.

SHAKESPEARE

Buxton — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:45:52 +0000

(one semester) offered ’08-‘09
Shakespeare has influenced the literature and language of the past few centuries more than any other writer. This class studies Shakespeare as a key to literary tradition. The emphasis is on understanding Shakespeare through reading the plays aloud. To prepare for an intentional and conscious reading, we use “analysis” and “paraphrasis.” We also examine literary and rhetorical devices used in the Shakespearean canon. The concurrent motivation is getting to spend time with some of the greatest writing in the English language. Plays read may include As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, The Sonnets as well as works by Euripides, Ben Jonson, and contemporary playwrights.

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE

Buxton — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:41:09 +0000

(one semester) offered ’08-‘09
A junior/senior literature elective, this class will explore the big themes that arise in the Twentieth Century. We will discuss the characteristics that define Modernism and Postmodernism. We will also examine how colonialism, the two world wars, the Cold War, and globalization have impacted the questions that literature sought to answer over this 100-year span. This class will address books that hail from all over the world, although more emphasis will be placed on the West (Europe and the U.S.), particularly in the first half of the course.

Media Gallery

Buxton — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:23:04 +0000

Capital Campaign

Buxton — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:22:03 +0000

Campus Tour

Buxton — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:20:08 +0000